Example sentences of "with [adj] or [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 IBM 's PROF system for office workers is supposed to be for those with little or no experience of computers .
2 As will be demonstrated , these systems have been designed to be operated by users with little or no experience of computing .
3 This chapter is designed to answer a simple question — what do school librarians and teachers , with little or no experience of microcomputers , need to know in order to overcome the initial uncertainties which people have when faced with new technology ?
4 If you are able to balance straights yourself or have asked a nutritionist to do it for you all well and good , but for the horse owner with little or no experience in feeding , compound feeds are the answer .
5 Course co-ordinator Tony Bland said the course was designed for people with little or no experience in the use of media-based resources .
6 Many food-intolerant patients , with little or no sign of chemical sensitivity , are also unable to drink , which supports the idea that enzyme defects are important in food intolerance as well ( see p 232 ) .
7 The fingerboard is rosewood , after the fashion of '50s Les Paul Standards , and the pearl inlays have been expertly applied with little or no sign of filler around the edges to mar the effect .
8 Low risk activity ( transfer of body fluids with little or no evidence of HIV transmission ) :
9 In Yugoslavia , Albania , North Korea and China a rather different pattern developed : in all these countries the communist party came to power through its leadership of a popular struggle against foreign occupation , with little or no help from the USSR in doing so .
10 If we relate this to the changes in the Labrador Sea we see ( Fig. 2 a ) that the only time there has been such a long period with little or no change in salinity , followed by a sudden marked freshening , was the period leading up to the renewal in 1972 .
11 Just as a change in liquid assets may lead to little or no change in credit , so a change in credit may occur with little or no change in liquid assets .
12 FDC was designed to be installed and used by finance people , with little or no support from systems professionals .
13 The layman who reads this document is left with little or no idea of what he is undertaking .
14 The block vote makes terrible television , as millions of votes are marshalled on behalf of union members with little or no loyalty to the party .
15 Catholic nationalists could be and were arrested with little suspicion , detained , frequently beaten , and all with little or no possibility of redress .
16 The perennial question for television executives is : how on earth does one make arts programmes interesting to an audience with little or no enthusiasm for the arts ?
17 Regardless of where their support came from , the fact was that possession of 38 seats in the Volkstag meant they could now rule with little or no reference to the other parties .
18 Candidates must now set up personal machines manned by workers attracted to them by their individual qualities and stands on the issues with little or no reference to party loyalty .
19 Some writers have pointed out that the notion of professionalism is occasionally used to improve the image , prestige and rewards of teachers with little or no reference to any commitment to improve educational practice .
20 Within this area of what could be called ‘ pure phonology ’ , problems are examined with little or no reference to their relevance to the language learner .
21 ‘ I mean , ’ Corbett said forcefully , ‘ that for two decades Alexander III ruled this country with little or no assistance from the French .
22 Bruce , defending the expansion of university extra-mural work since the war , saw the future role of the WEA primarily as a student-body rather than as one with a teaching responsibility , ‘ an organisation of all adult students ’ with little or no emphasis on the working-class element : ‘ in the general interest , it would seem best … for the WEA to concentrate its attention upon the stimulation and organisation of demand … all but the most elementary pioneer work could become the responsibility of Extra-Mural Departments or local authorities ’ with the WEA left as ‘ the mouthpiece of lively , conscious student demand ’ .
23 The broad date span , 1700–1880 will be used to emphasise the continuity of development , with little or no emphasis on labels such as ‘ Neo-classicism ’ or ‘ Realism ’ .
24 Not surprisingly these devices are distributed with little or no instruction on correct use — thus increasing women 's health problems .
25 The search software is user-friendly , with menu-driven commands , colour screens and help facilities , and users are able to carry out searches themselves with little or no instruction from library staff .
26 We have discussed this in more detail in Chapter Three where we saw how the parameters of this debate as set out in these campaigns were seized upon by the Tory Party with little or no response from the Labour Party who seemed unable to cope with the authoritarian drift .
27 This does not apply to those people who spend long periods of time in institutions which they are powerless to leave and with little or no freedom of choice … children 's homes , boarding schools , prisons , mental hospitals , homes for people with disabilities .
28 However , if you find yourself in Socks ' predicament , with little or no influence over your major stressors , here 's my five-point psychological damage-limitation plan :
29 This model sees local authorities as having a subordinate relationship to central government with little or no discretion in the task of implementing national policies .
30 He also pleaded interference with his duty to those by whom he was employed in a private practice of considerable extent , but his time at the College had been clearly specified — two hours for consultation by subscribers with sick horses on three days a week , with little or no call upon him for attendance at uncertain hours . ’
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